Hi all,
I am not one of them, but there are a lot of people (including KDE devs apparently) concerned about CSD because it means different decorations depending on the apps/toolkit => Consistency might suffer. Currently, it's up to the apps/toolkits to tell the WM they want to remain undecorated (via Motif MWM hints) so that they can manage their decorations themselves. GTK+ can optionally use CSD for its dialogs as well via a specific setting. I would like to evaluate a different approach, the opposite way actually, instead of the apps deciding to go with CSD or SSD, it would be up to the DE to set a hint telling the apps if they /should/ prefer CSD or SSD. The DE /may/ expose that option to the user (or not), up to the DE devs to decide. I think it's very little change in GTK+ as it's already able to do both SSD and CSD (currently, decision to use CSD or SSD being made at run time based on the availability of a compositor). gnome-shell (or any other WM) would just have to set the relevant hint to tell the apps to prefer CSD. Apps that cannot or don't know how to do CSD would still be decorated, just like now => The final word still remains to the applications, just like now. Since GTK+ has different backends for Wayland or Mir, those would remain unaffected (and still prefer CSD, unless someone wants to add a similar mechanism for Wayland - /me looks at KDE). I am willing to work on patches for that on my spare time (I do expect these to be minimal), but before I spend some time on this, I'd like to evaluate the chances of such an idea to be accepted... Was this already discussed in the past maybe? Cheers, Olivier _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
